Year: 2020

Doughty FoJ Michael C suggested monster-related covers from this fun series. I'm sure my demographic will remember Power Records, which at one point dramatized like radio plays Marvel comics stories, including issues of their various monster series such as the above, on cheapie vinyl records which came with covers like this. It's comparatively rare…

Talk about rip-offs! (Actually, Jones came before Carter, who Marvel also had the license for. Jones was before his time, I guess.) Have a great and more important safe weekend, everyone.

Again, meh. I guess the lizard guys are pretty decent, though.

So here, apparently, was the introduction of Thongor. Again, you can tell they did not have their best people working on this. Generic skeleton guy, generic demons, generic beautiful woman in peril, and of course a rather generic hero. This is the sort of book that relied on people reading comics out of habit…

This pretty much sums up the concept of uninspired. It's competent, but there's a generic knock-off barbarian (Marvel had the Conan license, but I'm sure would have preferred to own a character like him if he could be made similarly popular--which obviously didn't happen). A generic monster. (The "Man-Monster"? Really? That's fresh.) I mean,…

First of all, I hope everyone is well. I actually braved a theater with a friend yesterday (along with maybe 10 other souls) to see King Kong. I will say that the parking lot for the multiplex was maybe a quarter filled, maybe. 20%? Not great for a Sunday. Still, King Kong. Great movie.…

YouTube has a nice (if nowhere near this crisp) copy of Lady Vampire from 1959. I had never even heard of that. Now I can't find the channel anymore, though, and apparently it's been deleted. That's a real shame, as they had a lot of great Japanese and British horror movies. No licenses though,…

Although my first thought of Max Von Sydow was of The Seventh Seal, featured yesterday, I know that for most people it's his turn as the titular Father Merrin in The Exorcist. I'm sure theaters will play it around Halloween-time, so if you don't get around to watching it at home anytime soon, you…

Max Von Sydow, RIP. This has been a tough year for old movie buffs already, what with Kirk Douglas passing away last month and now Max Von Sydow passing. I've seen Strange Brew and Flash Gordon recently (Gordon as at this year's B-Fest), so this week I'll rewatch today's subject. Of course there's The…

Coming soon to a theater near you! Kong has been featured here many times, but I figured folks would want to know that TCM and Fathom Events will be hosting two showings, an afternoon and an evening one, next Sunday (the 15th) in theaters nationwide. If you have access to a kid, you might…